How TO PASS LIFE’S TEST
Jeremiah 11:20
Jeremiah tells that God tests our hearts, emotions, and thinking powers.
Every time God gives us a test,we can tell how far we have come and how far we still have to go by how we react in that test.
Attitudes of the heart that we did not know we had often come out through tests and trials.
When we want to test something,how do we do it? We put pressure on it to see what it will do what it says it will do;we look to see if it will hold up the stress. God does the same thing with us. When we pray, asking him to use us and put you into positions of leadership,his answer is,“Let Me try you out first. Let me put you to the test.”
We know many people never make it past the trying point.They never pass the test. They spend their whole lives going around and around the same problem going up and down on mountains. But in God’s school we do not flunk;we get to keep taking test again and again until we pass it.
To test something means to prove its truth and genuineness by an experiment,a trial,or an examination.It also means to compare something against a standard.One of the ways God tests us is by requiring us to manifest what we say we know. Our own knowledge alone is not enough. If we cannot manifest what we say we know then our knowledge means nothing.
Deuteronomy 8:2 says that God led Israelites in the wilderness for forty years to humble them, to prove them,and to see if they would keep his commandments.Tests usually do not come in good times. They come in hard times because not everything God asks us to do is going to be easy.That is why he tests us to see if we are ready and able before he promotes us to a higher level of responsibility.
James 1:2-4 says that tests bring out what is in with us. In times we become best acquainted with ourselves and with what we are capable of doing. Peter did not think he would ever deny Jesus,but when he was put to the test,that is exactly what he did (see Luke 22:60-62). God is not impressed with what we say we will do ; He is impressed with what we prove we will do under pressure. We do not get promoted in ministry because we have our Bible underlined in two colours. We are raised up in life and ministry because we have been tested and tried,and we have passed out tests.
Let us pray
Father your ways are not our ways, increase our trust on your word ,it does not matter what we are going through now your protection is always with us .Amen
Sol Piya